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title: When I was looking, what should I do but fall; and the place was so… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When I was looking, what should I do but fall; and the place was so full of heather, that neither bone nor skin was broken. Who acts: I, place. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 110

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When I was looking, what should I do but fall; and the place was so full of heather, that neither bone nor skin was broken.

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**Who acts:** I, place · **What happens:** look, do, fall, be, break · **To what, where:** bone

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:9:110
# text = When I was looking, what should I do but fall; and the place was so full of heather, that neither bone nor skin was broken.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
23	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the place |  |  |  |  | of heather; full *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **break** | past · passive |  | neither bone nor skin |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient that=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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